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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [.tuc] oddity when storing a table
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:19:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5057A20C.3060208@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120917211349.GB7316@phlegethon>

On 17-9-2012 23:13, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> ···<date: 2012-09-16, Sunday>···<from: Hans Hagen>···
>
>> On 16-9-2012 19:17, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>>> Bug?
>>
>> no, feature. job variables are just key/values and accessible at the
>> tex end (you store 'works too' in 'bar')
>
> Ok, I wasn’t aware of this restriction.
>
>> if you want arbitrary data to be stores you need to used datasets,
>> as explained in
>>
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definedataset
>
> Hmm, the wiki only covers the TeX macro interface whilst I am
> mainly concerned with passing stuff right from the Lua end.
>
>  From my reading of core-dat.lua I gather that there is not really
> a way to dump any Lua table (array or hash or mixed) via
> datasets. Except directly writing to “tobesaved”.

And that is indeed somewhat nasty; I'll add a 'convert' key to the 
settings so that you can set raw data at the Lua end.

(I'll send you a Lua file for testing)

Hans


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-17 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-16 17:17 Philipp Gesang
2012-09-16 21:16 ` Hans Hagen
2012-09-17 21:13   ` Philipp Gesang
2012-09-17 22:19     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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